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Adidam History: Friday, November 15 (today)
Conscious exercise and the Transcendental Sun is published. Description of the book: Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun is a manual for those who practice the spiritual Way taught by Adi Da. Through Adi Da's Grace, we know what it is to look, feel, and be completely happy. Conscious exercise is simply a way of practicing this whole bodily happiness under all conditions, without reason. It utilizes the natural laws of body, breath, and attention to realign us, consciously and instantly with the "Transcendental Sun". The disciplines offered in this book include basic ways to stand, sit, walk, and breathe with energy and delight; brief and natural routines of calisthenics, Hatha Yoga, and surya namaskar; and a basic practice of pranayama, or control of the life-force in breath that can be done at random throughout the day.
At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, "God Is Not an Alternative Reality"(later published in Vision Mound magazine), in which He Criticizes the traditional and modern day tendency to equate Real-God-Realization with the inversion of attention. "From the 'point of view' of the whole body, God is not the inward, invisible, original 'alternative reality' to be found only through inversion. God is not an 'alternative experience' to your present 'experiences'. The 'alternative reality' only seems hopeful to you when you are in fear, when you are stuck in recoil, identified with only half of the body, caught in its passivity, its doubt, its vulnerability. When you are simply Free, without motion in yourself, then you Realize Reality Itself, or Real God, Who is not other than any 'experience' at all, not 'other' than any condition whatsoever. Reality Itself, or Love-Bliss, Is the Source-Condition of all arising conditions, the Reality of present conditions. MORE
The Bright Field: The Photographic Art of Adi Da Samraj is published. Book description: The first publication of Adi Da's image-art. This large-format book presents black-and-white photographic image-art from 2000-2001 and includes 12 very different suites. Adi Da presents his images in suites, rather than as single images. Each suite can have anywhere from a few images to several hundred. Each suite is very different in quality: a "meditation" on a rock that rises out the of the ocean, a series of sensual and playful images set in a city, a look at human personalities as "shattered" phenomena, and so on. Every suite takes the viewer on an artistic, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey. Most of Adi Da's images in this book are highly sophisticated and complex multiple exposures, often involving more than two (and even as many as ten or more) superimposed layers, shot in camera.
Quote for November 15, 2024
The leading principle of the spiritual process is to locate the Living Condition, the Divine. Be distracted by It. Grant feeling to It.
from Transcend Meaning and Live with Me - A Talk by Adi Da, August 20, 1983
Adidam Celebration Dates
November 3 is Adi Da Jayanthi, the Supreme Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Human Birth of the Divine Person on November 3, 1939. We celebrate the Gift of God Present — no longer a question mark for humankind to ponder and doubt ("Does God exist?"), or a being that can only be found somewhere else ("heaven", etc.) or some other time (e.g., after we die), but a Gift for humankind to recognize, enjoy, and Realize . . . always directly accessible, right here, right now, through the Divine Incarnation of Adi Da. READ MORE
In Adidam, Danavira Mela, or The Season of Light-In-Everybody, lasts from early November to the January 11th Celebration of Avatar Adi Da's Divine Self-"Emergence".
ADI DA: I love this season of celebration. In human terms, it is really the best season of the whole year. Rightly engaged, this season should be the most splendid, loving time of every year.
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November 26 is the Supreme Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Divine Mahasamadhi (honoring Bhagavan Adi Da's
Divine Mahasamadhi in 2008). This is November 27, Fiji time. The three-day Mahasamadhi Vigil begins at 5:05pm Fiji Time.
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